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Drupal 101: Working with your web site (Drupal 7)

Drupal is a sophisticated software system for running web sites that is widely used and has won several awards for best Content Management System (CMS). With Drupal, you can maintain and update web sites without any html or coding knowledge (although it's extremely helpful and almost necessary for the installation and customization of your theme). With a CMS like Drupal, you can keep your content fully updated yourself while only needing to rely on a professional for the maintenance of the software, changes to the look of your site (theme), or to add new features. This can save your organization or business thousands of dollars each year.

However, using Drupal can take some getting used to. We've created this site to help show you how to maintain your site.

Drupal provides these advantages to users:

Pages can be updated and formatted using a simple toolbar, with no knowledge of HTML code

Content from MS Word pages can be pasted in with automatic translation of word formatting into web formatting

Site search is automated

There is a built-in calendar system (using the event or calendar modules)

What is Drupal?

Drupal is a Content Management System (CMS) that allows you to make changes and additions to your web site via your browser.

No html knowledge is necessary, as included with this software is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) html editor, which works much like Word or other word processing software.

Want additional functionality?

Want to be able to do more with your site? Functionality is added to a Drupal system through the installation of "modules". There are dozens of add-ons for Drupal, and only a few come with a basic install of Drupal.